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art cellar binary storage matroska ebml tags This document defines common Matroska Chapter Codecs, the basic Matroska Script and the DVD inspired DVD menu.

Introduction TODO

Status of this document This document is a work-in-progress specification defining the Matroska file format as part of the IETF Cellar working group. It uses basic elements and concepts already defined in the Matroska specifications defined by this workgroup.

Security Considerations Tag values can be either strings or binary blobs. This document inherits security considerations from the EBML and Matroska documents.

IANA Considerations To be determined.

Notation and Conventions The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "NOT RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in BCP 14 when, and only when, they appear in all capitals, as shown here.

Matroska Chapter Codecs TODO

Matroska Script (0) This is the case when ChapProcessCodecID = 0. This is a script language build for Matroska purposes. The inspiration comes from ActionScript, javascript and other similar scripting languages. The commands are stored as text commands, in UTF-8. The syntax is C like, with commands spanned on many lines, each terminating with a ";". You can also include comments at the end of lines with "//" or comment many lines using "/* */". The scripts are stored in ChapProcessData. For the moment ChapProcessPrivate is not used. The one and only command existing for the moment is GotoAndPlay( ChapterUID );. As the same suggests, it means that, when this command is encountered, the Matroska Player SHOULD jump to the Chapter specified by the UID and play it.

DVD menu (1) This is the case when ChapProcessCodecID = 1. Each level of a chapter corresponds to a logical level in the DVD system that is stored in the first octet of the ChapProcessPrivate. This DVD hierarchy is as follows:

ChapProcessPrivate	DVD Name	Hierarchy	Commands Possible	Comment
0x30	SS	DVD domain	-	First Play, Video Manager, Video Title
0x2A	LU	Language Unit	-	Contains only PGCs
0x28	TT	Title	-	Contains only PGCs
0x20	PGC	Program Group Chain (PGC)	*
0x18	PG	Program 1 / Program 2 / Program 3	-
0x10	PTT	Part Of Title 1 / Part Of Title 2	-	Equivalent to the chapters on the sleeve.
0x08	CN	Cell 1 / Cell 2 / Cell 3 / Cell 4 / Cell 5 / Cell 6	-

You can also recover wether a Segment is a Video Manager (VMG), Video Title Set (VTS) or Video Title Set Menu (VTSM) from the ChapterTranslateID element found in the Segment Info. This field uses 2 octets as follows:

1. Domain Type: 0 for VMG, the domain number for VTS and VTSM
2. Domain Value: 0 for VMG and VTSM, 1 for the VTS source.

For instance, the menu part from VTS010.VOB would be coded [1,0] and the content part from VTS023.VOB would be [2,1]. The VMG is always [0,0] The following octets of ChapProcessPrivate are as follows:

Octet 1	DVD Name	Following Octets
0x30	SS	Domain name code (1: 0x00= First play, 0xC0= VMG, 0x40= VTSM, 0x80= VTS) + VTS(M) number (2)
0x2A	LU	Language code (2) + Language extension (1)
0x28	TT	global Title number (2) + corresponding TTN of the VTS (1)
0x20	PGC	PGC number (2) + Playback Type (1) + Disabled User Operations (4)
0x18	PG	Program number (2)
0x10	PTT	PTT-chapter number (1)
0x08	CN	Cell number [VOB ID(2)][Cell ID(1)][Angle Num(1)]

If the level specified in ChapProcessPrivate is a PGC (0x20), there is an octet called the Playback Type, specifying the kind of PGC defined:

• 0x00: entry only/basic PGC
• 0x82: Title+Entry Menu (only found in the Video Manager domain)
• 0x83: Root Menu (only found in the VTSM domain)
• 0x84: Subpicture Menu (only found in the VTSM domain)
• 0x85: Audio Menu (only found in the VTSM domain)
• 0x86: Angle Menu (only found in the VTSM domain)
• 0x87: Chapter Menu (only found in the VTSM domain)

The next 4 following octets correspond to the User Operation flags in the standard PGC. When a bit is set, the command SHOULD be disabled. ChapProcessData contains the pre/post/cell commands in binary format as there are stored on a DVD. There is just an octet preceding these data to specify the number of commands in the element. As follows: [# of commands(1)][command 1 (8)][command 2 (8)][command 3 (8)]. More information on the DVD commands and format on DVD from the project.

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